I got myself a Terratec S7 because my existing Cynergy S2 card started to show problems, and the situation is not resolved yet, mainly because the S7 does not appear to control the dish as it should in the PC I want it to run.

To figure out where exactly the problem is, I took the S7 and tried to install everything on a separate laptop, not contaminated by previous installations of any TV software 😉

I installed the drivers, but did not immediately notice that the installation had failed. Only when DVBViewer presented an empty list of supported hardware, and after installing the drivers again, I realized the failure (there is no visual clue as to whether installation was successful or not, you actually have to *read* *text* 😉 ).

The output of the Windows Error Report (accessible from the error entry in the Event Log) listed an error code E0000247

Starting up DVBViewer again, it immediately recognized the S7, and a range scan found several hundred channels fine. I switched to a couple of channels that I also had on my TV, but there was no picture.

Forum talk mentions this issue, along with LAV filters, which I had come across earlier clicking through the files of the Home Cinema download page. So I downloaded TERRATEC_Home_Cinema_Codec_Patch.exe from there, installed it, and finally got a TV on my laptop.